ABSTRACT
Morphology is an important element in determining the physiochemical properties of nanomaterial, and it has become an essential point in the process of materials fabrication to obtain different kinds of structure [1, 2]. As a significant metal-based material, recently manganese compounds (such as Mn3O4, MnO2, MnOOH, MnC2O4, MnS, etc.) have attracted a lot of interests due to their excellent properties in many fields such as magnetic application [3], catalysis [4], electronics [5] etc. In the last decade, the shapes of manganese compounds have been controlled by various techniques [6-8]. For an example, a variety of Mn-based materials including Mn3O4 octahedrons, MnOOH nanorods, MnO2 nanowires and aggregated MnCO3 nanoparticles in the form of spindles were prepared by a hydrothermal method [9], but the affected factors are difficult to control. Developing a facial method to synthesis various products with different morphology is still a great challenge for the materials’ researchers.
